Synopsis

This film traces the intricate three-year process culminating in Richard Nixon's groundbreaking visit to the People's Republic of China in February 1972. According to narrator David Ogden Stiers, the event fundamentally shifted the global balance of power. The film details the strategy behind this pivotal moment, utilizing archival footage and interviews with key figures: Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig, alongside Chinese and Soviet officials, and Nixon himself (in a 1977 television interview